CQL and pygments

2020-06-01 Thread Lorina Poland
Some time back, someone (Sylvain?) wrote some code to use CQL with pygments. Can I interest anyone in picking up that work, perhaps doing some update and submitting it upstream to pygments.org? It would be exceedingly helpful to me personally (for C* documentation work), but also a wider

[DISCUSS] Updating the companies listed on the home page as C* users

2020-07-15 Thread Lorina Poland
. Thanks, Lorina Lorina Poland e. lor...@datastax.com w. www.datastax.com

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating the C* website design

2020-07-29 Thread Lorina Poland
To address Melissa's comments - the main reason that this proposal is offered right now is that the Documentation renewal involves a change to a new static site generator, Antora (https://antora.org). Because of this change, the UI for cassandra.apache.org/doc must be rebuilt using the Antora UI

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating the C* website design

2020-07-29 Thread Lorina Poland
my initial scribblings. Certainly collaboration would be welcome. Lorina Poland On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 2:13 PM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > > I would offer that design is important, but content matters more -- so > > would suggest adding content strategy/development and

Re: [DISCUSS] CASSANDRA Jira modification - add Doc Impact field

2020-07-31 Thread Lorina Poland
of knowing about tickets that require docs. The automation rule would still be nice, and could be triggered when Impacts = Docs. Thanks for the info, Benedict! Lorina Poland On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 1:10 PM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > > It is mandatory to move a ticket to "I

[DISCUSS] CASSANDRA Jira modification - add Doc Impact field

2020-07-31 Thread Lorina Poland
Doc Impact field is checked. I would love to have that as well, but would be happy just for the Doc Impact field. If Doc Impact was mandatory when a ticket moves from review to merge, for instance, that would be useful, too. Thanks, Lorina Poland

Re: [DISCUSS] CASSANDRA Jira modification - add Doc Impact field

2020-07-31 Thread Lorina Poland
what it does. A topic like audit logging is likely to use many classes and touch on many items that I'm not familiar with nor be the most readable code. Lorina Poland On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:35 PM Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: > Impacts -> Docs > > It's not mandatory,

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating the C* website design

2020-08-05 Thread Lorina Poland
in their own repo which antora can use for building, for example), but that needs exploration. Lorina Poland On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 12:06 PM Michael Semb Wever wrote: > > > > See that here: > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aeNtgyPAsKcNa0GSKvl2ywlFEj30714ry4Sb5tu

Re: Proof of concept for Cassandra docs conversion

2020-06-24 Thread Lorina Poland
as 4.0-rc5) to demonstrate having selectable doc versions. Still manually editing files, so yes - I know there are still pages messed up. And the Last/Next buttons - trying to figure out the implementation. But all comments appreciated and solicited. Thanks, Lorina Lorina Poland e. lor...@datastax.com

Re: Community marketing for C*

2020-06-25 Thread Lorina Poland
Hi Melissa - Glad to hear about the marketing efforts! I'm working on an effort to improve the Apache C* documentation, so if you have questions or suggestions about that, I'd be happy to hear them. I'm also happy to do any editing/reading of blogs before they go out. Cheers, Lorina On Wed,

Proof of concept for Cassandra docs conversion

2020-06-10 Thread Lorina Poland
confident that this process can be accomplished. Some YAML configuration for antora was required, and I did a minimum of UI configuration (added color banner, logo). Looking for feedback and questions anyone may have. Thanks, Lorina Poland (DataStax tech writer)

Re: Proof of concept for Cassandra docs conversion

2020-06-11 Thread Lorina Poland
https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/getting_started/configuring.html > > ). > > > > > > I'm a fan. > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 2:21 PM Lorina Poland > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello all! > > > > &

Re: Proof of concept for Cassandra docs conversion

2020-06-11 Thread Lorina Poland
current build > tools) -> AsciiDoc (using Pandoc). > > Yours, > Murukesh Mohanan > > > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 03:21, Lorina Poland wrote: > > > Hello all! > > > > Based on an earlier discussion about moving the OSS C* docs to > > asciidoc, to allow

Re: Proof of concept for Cassandra docs conversion

2020-06-12 Thread Lorina Poland
> Left bar navigation and content navigation on top right are both > > > aesthetically and usability-wise quite superior IMO (comparing to > > > > https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/getting_started/configuring.html > > ). > > > > > > I'm a fan. >

Re: Welcome Jordan West, David Capwell, Zhao Yang and Ekaterina Dimitrova as Cassandra committers

2020-12-16 Thread Lorina Poland
I'm really excited to see these four folks become committers! Congratulations! Lorina Poland On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 11:16 AM Paulo Motta wrote: > Great news, congratulations to the new committers! > > Em qua., 16 de dez. de 2020 às 14:52, Patrick McFadin > escreveu: > >

Re: Upgrade chronicle-queue version from 4 to 5

2021-01-20 Thread Lorina Poland
Do you happen to know if there is any documentation impact to the change? Lorina Poland On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:27 PM Jeff Jirsa wrote: > No objection and strong agreement that it should happen with 4.0 for arm64 > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:44 PM Mick Semb Wever wrote:

[DISCUSS] Removal of third-party plug-ins doc page

2021-01-20 Thread Lorina Poland
This page, https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/plugins/index.html, seems to reference two abandoned plugin projects for Cassandra. Should this page be removed from at least the Cassandra 4.0 documentation? Neither seems to have been updated beyond C* 3.0. Thanks, Lorina Poland

Re: [DISCUSS] Removal of third-party plug-ins doc page

2021-01-21 Thread Lorina Poland
Sounds good. Thanks for the feedback everyone. Lorina Poland On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:07 AM Stefan Miklosovic < stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > Hi Lorina, > > we at Instaclustr are supporting that Lucene plugin for Cassandra 3 > and we work towards Cassandra 4

Re: Upgrade chronicle-queue version from 4 to 5

2021-01-21 Thread Lorina Poland
Great - thanks for the follow-up. Lorina Poland On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:38 AM Michael Semb Wever wrote: > > > > Do you happen to know if there is any documentation impact to the change? > > > Not that I can see. > > Neither of these page make reference about

Re: Welcome Caleb Rackliffe as Cassandra committer

2021-05-17 Thread Lorina Poland
Really glad to see your addition to the committer list, Caleb! Congratulations! Lorina Poland e. lor...@datastax.com w. www.datastax.com On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 1:12 AM Benjamin Lerer wrote: > Congratulations Caleb :-) > > Le lun. 17 mai 2021 à 07:15, Berenguer Blasi

Re: Welcome Dinesh Joshi as Cassandra PMC member

2021-06-02 Thread Lorina Poland
Congratulations, Dinesh! Lorina Poland e. lor...@datastax.com w. www.datastax.com On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 9:22 AM Vinay Chella wrote: > Congratulations Dinesh. > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 9:18 AM Brandon Williams wrote: > > > Congrats, Dinesh! > > > > On Wed, Ju

Re: Additions to Cassandra ecosystem page?

2021-07-01 Thread Lorina Poland
I agree with Ben - why can other Apache communities navigate this issue, and Apache Cassandra cannot? I think that we grow the community when we make people aware of how Cassandra is used. Why make new users to Cassandra search for things that we all know exist? Help them to discover! I would

Re: [DISCUSSION] Attracting new contributors

2021-04-27 Thread Lorina Poland
written in asciidoc, in place. Soon. Lorina Lorina Poland e. lor...@datastax.com w. www.datastax.com On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:32 AM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > > Thanks for bringing this important topic for discussion Benjamin. I think > > it would help to enumerate what issues we fa

Re: Welcome Paulo Motta as Cassandra PMC member

2021-02-09 Thread Lorina Poland
Congratulations Paulo! Lorina Poland e. lor...@datastax.com w. www.datastax.com On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 10:30 AM Andrés de la Peña wrote: > Congrats Paulo! > > On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 17:42, Sumanth Pasupuleti < > sumanth.pasupuleti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >

Re: Welcome Berenguer Blasi as Cassandra committer

2021-03-26 Thread Lorina Poland
Just adding more congratulations, Berenguer! Well-deserved! Lorina Poland e. lor...@datastax.com w. www.datastax.com On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:17 PM Yifan Cai wrote: > > Congratulations Berenguer! > > - Yifan > > > On Mar 26, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Sumanth Pasupuleti &

Re: Project website analytics

2021-03-11 Thread Lorina Poland
Excited to have this capability! Lorina Poland On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:16 AM Berenguer Blasi wrote: > Thx a lot indeed! > > On 11/3/21 14:59, Benjamin Lerer wrote: > > Thanks a lot to Stefan, Mick and Instaclustr. :-) > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 2:2

[DISCUSS] Cleaning up docs, completing CASSANDRA-16763

2021-10-05 Thread Lorina Poland
This is a discussion about how to tackle getting the docs “fixed”. As many of you know, I started months ago to convert the Apache Cassandra in-tree docs from reStructedText (rST)to AsciiDoc. [1] The conversion required both the docs source files to be converted, but also the cassandra-website

Re: [DISCUSS] Virtual Tables and the future of NodeTool/JMX

2021-07-15 Thread Lorina Poland
I think it is important to keep in mind that users may be utilizing nodetool programmatically, in scripts. Obviously, those scripts could use calls to cqlsh as an alternative, but I'm a fan of keeping nodetool intact, building out virtual table capability, and then deprecating nodetool. In other

Re: GSOD 2022

2022-03-08 Thread Lorina Poland
I'm willing to take the lead on GSoD. Let me think about what projects I think would benefit the docs. Lorina On 2022/03/08 16:03:48 Paulo Motta wrote: > Any of the docs contributors interested in taking the lead on this? Perhaps > Dinesh could share some tips on how to create the GSoD

Re: GSOD 2022

2022-03-09 Thread Lorina Poland
on and > project ideas: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Cassandra+GSoD+2019+application > > > > It would be a good idea to do something similar and get a sense of where > our documentation is lacking and then proceed from there. > > > >> On M

Re: Fw: GSOD 2022

2022-03-28 Thread Lorina Poland
the GSoD Participation and > project ideas: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Cassandra+GSoD+2019+application > > > > It would be a good idea to do something similar and get a sense of where > our documentation is lacking and then proceed from the

Re: [DISCUSS] Non Coding Committers

2022-02-08 Thread Lorina Poland
+1 to this conversation, from a Docs wonk. :-) On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:40 PM Patrick McFadin wrote: > Sharan has done a good job shining a spotlight on something that has > created a weird bottleneck in the project. Docs and the Cassandra website > are all in-tree, but it takes somebody who

Apache Cassandra 5.0 documentation

2023-01-25 Thread Lorina Poland
;. Thanks, Lorina Poland

Re: GSoD 2023

2023-01-18 Thread Lorina Poland
Hi Deepak - I'll have more to post soon, but I have started working on a proposal for GSoD 2023 for Apache Cassandra. Keep an eye out for that post. On 2023/01/11 09:56:36 Deepak Vohra via dev wrote: > Lorina, > Happy New Year. > You mentioned this year you might apply. As I am interested in

Re: Apache Cassandra 5.0 documentation

2023-02-01 Thread Lorina Poland
I've not had any comment on this topic. Can I assume that no one has objections? Lorina On 2023/01/25 19:02:41 Lorina Poland wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm gearing up to help get the Cassandra 5.0 docs in good order before the > GA release occurs later this year. Recently, I've been th

Cassandra 5.0 Documentation Plan

2023-02-01 Thread Lorina Poland
Hey all - I presented a potential Docs Information Architecture recently, and promised a Doc Plan for the upcoming C* 5.0 release. Please give me feedback, especially if you feel that the priorities for upcoming features should be different than what I propose. Also understand that the priority

Re: Google Season of Documentation proposal

2023-02-16 Thread Lorina Poland
Good news! The Open Collective application was accepted! Step one is done. Lorina On 2023/02/13 22:23:35 Lorina Poland wrote: > Hi all - > > I have submitted an application to the Open Collective, so that we would > have a funding mechanism to pay 1-2 technical writers if we ar

Re: [DISCUSS] CEP-29 CQL NOT Operator

2023-04-14 Thread Lorina Poland
Wow, you know, J.D., I've never actually heard ALLOW FILTERING described as you did. Generally, the discussion is always in terms of multiple partitions, probably because that is the situation in which the memory is exceeded. Thanks for that definition. Regardless of how this discussion goes,

Google Season of Documentation proposal

2023-02-13 Thread Lorina Poland
Hi all - I have submitted an application to the Open Collective, so that we would have a funding mechanism to pay 1-2 technical writers if we are successful with our GSoD proposal. I have the GSoD proposal ready, and am only waiting for the first date for submission, Feb 15, 2023. Here is a link

Re: Welcome Patrick McFadin as Cassandra Committer

2023-02-02 Thread Lorina Poland
Absolutely, a big woot for you, Patrick! Congratulations! Lorina On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 12:09 PM Sharan F wrote: > Congratulations Patrick! > > Thanks > Sharan > > On Thu, 2 Feb 2023, 18:58 Benjamin Lerer, wrote: > >> The PMC members are pleased to announce that Patrick McFadin has accepted

Re: Status Update on CEP-7 Storage Attached Indexes (SAI)

2023-07-27 Thread Lorina Poland
I have to say how excited I am that I get to emphasize SAI as an indexing method for Apache C*, rather than the much less capable 2i! I have been waiting for this day for years! Thanks Caleb and all who worked to make this day a reality! Lorina On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 10:08 PM Berenguer Blasi

Re: Harry in-tree (Forked from "Long tests, Burn tests, Simulator tests, Fuzz tests - can we clarify the diffs?")

2024-01-02 Thread Lorina Poland
Is there any user-facing documentation (for developers) that should be added? I note that you say there is "extensive documentation"; I presume that you are referring to the README.md in the repo? If there is a desire to add documentation to the website, as opposed to the MD files in the repo,

Re: Welcome Maxim Muzafarov as Cassandra Committer

2024-01-08 Thread Lorina Poland
Congratulations Maxim! On 2024/01/08 18:19:04 Josh McKenzie wrote: > The Apache Cassandra PMC is pleased to announce that Maxim Muzafarov has > accepted > the invitation to become a committer. > > Thanks for all the hard work and collaboration on the project thus far, and > we're all looking

Re: Welcome Mike Adamson as Cassandra committer

2023-12-08 Thread Lorina Poland
Congratulations, Mike!